Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger warns Aaron Ramsey to FOCUS on his role

FLOP GUN: Aaron Ramsey has failed to reach the heights he reached last season in the current campaign [ACTION IMAGES]

The Arsenal and Wales midfielder has come under fire for recent performances and he was singled out after the Gunners let a three goal lead slip against Anderlecht in midweek.

Gunners boss Wenger has told the 23-year-old - who scored 16 goals last season - to focus on his game rather than worrying about finding the net.

Asked what Ramsey needs to do to return to last season's level, Wenger said: "Just keep the priorities right.

"Midfield is a guy who defends well and makes the other players in the team play well so focus on that.

"I think you have to be guided not by what people say, but the way we want to play and the way the game should be played.

"People say you have been great if you score a goal but have a disastrous game.

"As a midfielder you have to keep the priorities right: defend well, attack well and give good balls to the other players.

"It's in the heart of the game. It is what the game is about. It's not about goal scoring. Goal scoring is a consequence of playing well first. So focus on playing well."

If Wenger was hoping for a bit of good news after their 3-3 Champions League draw, he hasn't got it.

Laurent Koscielny has been ruled out for another month due to an Achilles injury.

Wenger had hoped his French centre-back would return from chronic tendinitis in his Achilles - which he has been nursing since the summer - in time for the game against Manchester United on November 22.

But Wenger revealed yesterday that Koscielny, who has already missed the last five games with rest diagnosed as the only cure, has yet to start running and will not make a first-team comeback before December.

“Midfield is a guy who defends well and makes the other players in the team play well so focus on that”

Arsene Wenger

When asked if Koscielny, 29, would be fit to face United, Wenger said: "No, I don't think so. He has not started running outside so you cannot think he will be available in two weeks time.

"Then you have to see how he responds to going outside and running. He will not be available for three or four weeks.

"You can never predict an Achilles problem and inflammation. His Achilles on the scans are quite good. It's just inflammation. He could not go on so we had no choice (to rest him). He is not there yet anyway. He cannot run."

Fit-again Theo Walcott was called up by England on Thursday, but Wenger has warned that he will not rush him back into Arsenal's starting line-up after recovering from a serious knee injury.

Arsenal face Swansea tomorrow and Wenger added: "It takes two months. Once you are back in full training, you count two months.

"Of course people think you're back and you play but it's not like that. Ten months is a long time in top-level football.

"You lose the sharpness, the speed. At the top level, it's a fraction of a second that makes the decisions and to find the confidence to get away from people.

"You even see it with top players like Lionel Messi. You have an injury for six weeks and they are not the same player. It takes time.

"You're nearly there but you're not there and for a while you think will that ever come back? And suddenly yes, it's there again. But it takes time to get that fraction of pace."